Furniture attachment



1,472,339 D. owmes FURNITURE ATTACHMENT Filed Oct. 18. 1922 INVENTOR pad/5y 0w/)2y.s

W1 I v ATTORNEY Patented Get. 36, 1923.

UNETEQ STATES Ltifmfltl DUDLEY OWINGS, OF SEATTLE, WASHINGTON.

FURNITURE ATTACHMENT.

Application filed October 18, 1922.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, DUDLEY OwrNes, a citizen of the United States, residing at Seattle, in the county of King and State of Washington, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Furniture Attachments, of which the following is a specilication.

This invention relates to furniture and its 1 object is the provision of bumper devices adapted to be attached to dressers, chiffoniers, or the like to serve as a ward to prevent the room walls from being chafed.

The invention consists in the novel construction and arrangement of parts hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings:

Figure 1 is a plan view, somewhat diagrammatic, of a dresser with my devices applied thereto. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of one of my improved devices shown at tached to a portion of a dresser. Fig. 3'

is a vertical transverse sectional view of the bumper member of the device.

' In carrying out my invention I provide for each of the rear corners 5 of a piece of furniture 6 a bracket 7 to which is pivotally connected a plate 8 which serves as a bumper with respect to the adjacent walls 9 of a. 1'00111.

A bracket 7 consists of a strip of sheet metal which is pressed or otherwise formed to provide arms 71 and 72 arranged in angular relations with each other. The bracket arm 71. is provided with apertures to receive screws 7 3 for securing the bracket to the furniture 6. Adjacent to its outer end the other arm 72 of the bracket is formed to provide apertured ears 74 extendrespectively of the arm.

A bumper plate 8 is desirably formed of a disk shape which is rounded about its periphery as at 81 and has in proximity of its center two spaced tongues 82 stamped therefrom. These tongues are disposed to bear against the bracket ears 74 and are apertured, as at 83 Fig. 3, to receive a pin l() which extends through said. ears and ing laterally from the upper and lower edges Serial No. 595,381.

serves to hingedly connect the bumper to the bracket.

11 represents a spring coiled about the pin 10 and has its ends 12 and 13 engaged in recessed lugs 75 and 84L formed or pro vided on the bracket arm 7 2 and the bumper plate 8.

The spring 11, moreover, is regulated to have the bumper plate yieldingly held at approximately right angles with respect to the bracket arm 72.

With the brackets 7 secured to the piece of furniture 6 in proximity of the rear corners 5 thereof as shown in Fig. l, the bumper plates will be held in position to interfere with such corners encountering the room walls. The yieldable connection at forded by the spring 11 between a bracket arm 72 and the bumper plate 8 allows the plate to bear throughout its plane outer surface against a wall surface and may be moved with the furniture without mutilating or defacing the wall surface.

iVhat I claim, is,-

1. An attachment of the character described comprising a bracket adapted to be secured to furniture, a disk shaped bumper having a plane face and provided with tongue elements, a pin engaging in said tongues and the bracket for pivotally connecting the bumper to the bracket, and means acting to yieldingly retain said bumper to have said face in approximately rectangular relations with respect to said bracket.

2. An attachment of the character described, comprising a plate provided with a pair of apertured ltfongues .;protruding from the central portion thereof, a bracket provided with laterally directed apertured ear elements, a pin extending through said ton ues and ears for )ivotall connectin D b the plate to the bracket, and a spring operatively connected to the plate and the bracket for yielding-1y retaining the same in approximately rectangular relations with respect to each other.

An attachment of the character described. comprising a plate having a curved and the bracket for yieldingly retaining the 15 same in approximately rectangular relations with respect-to each other;

Signed at Seattle. Washington, this 28th day of September, 1922.

DUDLEY owrnes.

Witnesses:

PIERRE BARNES, MARGARET G. SUPPLE. 

